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About Smartbookblog.com

Smartbookblog.com is your definitive forum for news, reviews and discussion about smartbooks – a new category of devices that deliver the best aspects of a smartphone experience in a larger form-factor.

Smartbooks are expected to hit the market in late 2009. Until then, our award-winning staff and contributors will bring you regular updates on smartbook-related developments, as well as reports on netbooks, notebooks and other related smart mobile devices.

Sponsored by Qualcomm, the mission of Smartbookblog.com is to provide comprehensive, objective and balanced coverage of this emerging category of consumer electronics. Smartbooks powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon™ chipset, which is uniquely capable of powering robust applications, rich multimedia experience and always-on connectivity, promises a new generation of smart mobile computing.

Check back here regularly for new reports and commentary, and don’t forget to sign up for our RSS news feeds and Twitter updates.


Editor-in-chief Loring Wirbel

Loring Wirbel has been a technology journalist for more than 25 years. He directed communications news coverage and market intelligence at EE Times, and also was a science editor for Scripps-Howard publications, where he won an award for coverage of missile-defense technologies. He is a two-time winner of Sonoma State University’s Project Censored award, and is the author of a book on space militarization.


Contributing Editor Lisa DiCarlo

Lisa DiCarlo is an award-winning technology and business journalist who has appeared on CNBC, CNN and Fox News. She directed technology coverage for Forbes.com, and has also been a senior editor and investigative reporter for PC Week magazine.


Contributing Editor Gordon Kelly

Gordon Kelly is a London-based writer and technology journalist with more than 10 years of industry experience. He is currently News Editor of TrustedReviews.com, the UK’s largest electronics site, and was previously Senior Reporter at Computer Reseller News. Gordon is regularly listed amongst England’s most influential technology journalists.


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